Aviation industry and airlines are undergoing hard times due to the SARS COVID-19 pandemic period as well as the tragedy of the heroic rebuff of Ukraine to the fascist–russist full-scale warfare invasion.
The current circumstances require indispensable measures to be taken in the major macroeconomic airline industry components. The presented paper is dedicated to the simplest macroeconomic problem setting in the framework of the Solow [1–3] and Cobb–Douglas [4,5] models, likewise for economic growth [6], taking into account the individuals’ subjective preferences functions of the available alternatives obtained based upon the Subjective Entropy Maximum Principle [7–10].
The Principle of the Subjective Entropy Maximum has been previously presented in the literature [7–10]. This principle was applied to the simplest problems of the macroeconomics dynamics. Those were the continuous models. They were in the type of the Leontief [11] ones.
Nevertheless, some important problems are neither included within nor converge into those classes of the simplest macroeconomics models: Solow [1–3], Mankiw et al. [6] and others.
A combination of macroeconomics models with the Principle of the Subjective Entropy Maximum is tried in the present work. The principle was developed during 1990–2010. Despite the fact that the principle formally hardly differs from that of Jaynes [12–14], the combination widens the area of the practical applications of the obtained results. This holds good especially in psychology [7–10], economics [7–10,15], theory of conflicts etc. [16–23]. And the approach could be recommended for implementation in various other spheres that share similar characteristics [24–32].
Let us consider development of the macroeconomics problem by Solow when there are some more elaborated members.
The production function is now given by the following expression:
Also, a Consumption member arising as an outcome of the splitting of the production process results should be distinguished as follows:
In the presented problem setting, described with Eqs (1) and (2), determination of the objective functional for the individuals’ subjective preferences
The normalising condition is expressed with the member of
The necessary conditions for the objective functional in Eq. (3)’s extremum existence
That is,
This yields
Thus,
On the other hand
This yields
Thus,
And,
This yields
Thus,
The procedure of Eqs (3)–(16) leads to the following position:
The normalising condition, i.e. Eq. (17), means that
Because of Eq. (18),
In turn,
And,
Supposedly, the Labour depends upon the Consumption in the following way:
Using Eqs (1)–(24), the recursive system is ascertained as the following:
The accepted data are
The initial conditions are
The results of the computer simulation are shown below (Figs. 1–10):
Aviation industry problems could be considered through the prism of macroeconomics modelling. One of these models, expressed in Eqs (1)–(28), enables considerations to be arrived at based upon the multi-alternative approach.
The intellectual potential of Human brain work power is distinguished from the general Labour component. It is taken into account with the formula of the production function in Eq. (1).
In turn, the particular Labour component of the total production depends upon the Consumption fraction formed from the production function. This is described with the expression in Eq. (2). In fact, the model in Eq. (22) envisages logistic dependence between the Labour and Consumption components.
The objective functional (Eq. [3]) in the presented three-alternative problem setting helps to find the so-called canonical distribution for the individuals’ subjective preferences functions (Eq. [7]) in the explicit view (Eqs [19]–[21]). The key point is the conditional optimisation of the subjective entropy function (Eq. [4]) in the framework of the objective functional (Eq. [3]) subject to the normalising conditions constraints (Eq. [5]) and the corresponding cognitive function construction. The simplest optimisation follows the procedure outlined via Eqs (6)–(21).
The elaborated model takes into consideration the Consumption limitations expressed in Eqs (23) and (24).
The recursive procedure provided with the use of the system of equations contained in Eq (25) is simulated with the accepted data indicated in Eqs (26)–(28). In the presented problem setting, the system of the individuals’ subjective preferences functions (Eq. [7]), of the canonical view expressed in Eqs (19)–(21), converges to the maximally subjective entropy value, which ensures degrading conditions for the macroeconomic system (see Figs. 1–10).
Human intellect potential could be successfully taken into account through the described recursive procedures. The uncertainty of the macroeconomic system alternatives’ subjective preferences functions (in the presented consideration, airline business alternatives’ subjective preferences for Capital, Human and Labour) is evaluated with the subjective entropy measure.
A solution for the particular three-alternative problem formulated in the present study concerning the airline business is arrived at after evaluating the available alternatives among individuals’ subjective preferences functions entropy maximum.